- Eleanor Roosevelt was a human rights activist fighting for the equal

rights of women. Fighting for African-Americans and Depression-era workers,

bringing to her cause inspiration and publicity.
 - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American
born in Manhattan, New York City, on October 11,
1884. After her parents died in 1892 and 1894,
Roosevelt was raised in her maternal
grandmother's household. Mary Livingston Ludlow
in Tivoli, New York, of the Livingston family. She
was insecure and hungry for affection as a child,
and considered herself the' ugly duckling.' She
chose to be called by her middle name, Eleanor,
from an early age, and she was President Theodore
Roosevelt's niece. She attended the Allenswood
Boarding Academy and the Colleges of Hobart
“No and
one can make you feel inferior without your
William Smith. consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
 - Eleanor was most known for encouraging the United
States to join the United Nations and support it and
became its first delegate. She was the first chairperson of
the UN Human Rights Commission and supervised the
preparation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll

be criticized anyway.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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In her life between 1947 and 1955, Roosevelt was

nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
There was an unsuccessful campaign to award her a
posthumous Nobel Peace Prize, but the award was
never considered a posthumous nomination.
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

- She promoted expanded job roles

for women, the civil rights of African
Americans and Asian Americans, and
the rights of refugees from World War II.
For the remaining 17 years of her life,
Roosevelt remained involved in politics
after her husband's death in
1901 - Six months after his second inauguration, President McKinley is
assassinated; the presidency is assumed by Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, uncle of
Eleanor.

1903 - Eleanor is engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after dropping her fifth
cousin. She is enrolled in the New York Junior League, where she teaches
immigrants callisthenics and dance. She joins the League of Buyers and discusses
working conditions in the garment districts.

1918 - Eleanor learns of her husband's affair with Lucy Mercer. The Versailles
Treaty has been ratified and the House of Representatives has introduced an
amendment granting women suffrage.

1919 - Eleanor volunteers to visit veterans of World War I at St. Elizabeth

Hospital, She volunteering at the Washington International Working Women's
Congress. The Eighteenth amendment declaring Prohibition was passed by
Congress.
1922 - Eleanor has become a member of the Women's Labor Union League. She
joins the Democratic State Committee Women's Division and meets Marion
Dickerman and Nancy Cook.

1928 - Eleanor is named by the Democratic National Committee as head of the

Bureau of Women's Activities; FDR is elected Governor of New York.

1933 - On March 6, Eleanor became the first wife of a president to hold all-female
press conferences.

1946 - Eleanor is elected head of the Human Rights Commission of the United
Nations and begins to draught the Declaration of Human Rights. She begins to
establish Americans for Democratic Action, a community that focuses on domestic
social change and opposition to Russia and the Cold War that is emerging.

1948 - Eleanor speaks at the Sorbonne during a meeting of the United Nations
General Assembly in Paris on The Struggles for the Rights of Man". Eleanor
 - There was an award created called the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights. It
was established in 1998 by the President of the United States Bill Clinton, honoring
outstanding American promoters of rights in the United States. The award was first awarded
on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, honoring Eleanor
Roosevelt's role as the "driving force" in the development of the UN's Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.

Children: James Roosevelt, Anna, Elliott, Franklin, John and Franklin Jr.

Parents: Anna Rebecca Hall and Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt

Nationality: United States

Hall of fame: National Women's Hall of Fame

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